Bug 401347

Summary:	sys-apps/sysvinit: improve error message if the package is not installed
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Martin Mokrejš <mmokrejs>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED NEEDINFO
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description Martin Mokrejš 2012-01-29 16:39:23 UTC

I somehow forgot to install sysvinit during new install. The boot process ends up with:

sh: cannot set terminal process group (-1): Inappropriate ioctl for device
sh: no job control in this shell
sh-4.2# _

Is there a  way to catch the situation earlier and report more informative message to the user? OpenRC improvement?



Looks I was not the only one hitting this. One example is at:
http://forums-lb.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-6927740.html?sid=491ea492e74412d4a06e51512ed69f53

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2012-01-30 16:40:01 UTC

i don't see how you can forget to install sysvinit.  openrc requires a virtual/init, and that requires sysvinit.  thus that package should be on a stage3 (and indeed, when i look at stage3-amd64-20120126.tar.bz2.CONTENTS, it is already installed).

the message you cite is a general bash error message.  customizing it to spew a message about sysvinit/openrc doesn't make much sense to me.

the kernel, during boot, will attempt to execute /sbin/init and if that fails, fall back to /bin/sh.  at which point, you see the warning from bash.

Comment 2 Martin Mokrejš 2012-01-30 17:35:25 UTC

Hmm, I also do not know but somehow I did not have the file and portage said
it really isn't installed. I checked now as well what was in the stage3 file I used and you are correct, the files is in there. But re-installing the package helped. Do you have an explanation for that? ;-)

Comment 3 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2012-01-30 22:19:15 UTC

i don't see how it could have unmerged w/out using -C or --depclean